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FirstMerit Bank Event Park has just announced a series of festivals and a color concert to excite music lovers, inspire those eager to experience a broad range of delicious foods served by top area restaurants, and quench everyone’s thirst!

Reclaiming the Heart of Country & Americana Music by Reshaping the Soul of Confessional Songwriting

Laurie Middlebrook is one of those rare musical artists that possess a voice as clear and vibrant as the sun breaking upon a rippling stream of water rising through creative territory that runs pristine and uncompromised.

A Regional Hip-Hop Legend Returns with His Most Personal & Musically Ambitious Work to Date

Since the early & formative years of the Hip-Hop & Rap scene when groups such as NWA and The Beastie Boys were laying down a new musical standard for popular music, Dangerous D served as a pioneering force on the Saginaw scene that helped shaped the early contours of the music by stretching the borders of the sound and re-defining typical stereotypes that were associated with the idiom.

They say we don’t make anything in America anymore, but in actuality there is one industry that has displayed consistent growth over the last 40 years, even finding a way to increase their business through imports. If your guess were prisons, you would be right on the money; that’s right, our own State & Federal Penitentiary System.

Bill Young was born in 1958 and grew up in Sanford. He had four older sisters and they all liked to listen to music. His parents had a small collection of older country music. This led to a lifelong love for music and his eventual sojourn into record collecting.

Voted the Best Live Event for Three Consecutive Years & Expanding to a Two-Day Festival, The Light Shines Brighter Upon this Annual Musical Gathering

Dirt Fest creator and principle organizer Matt Dalton has much to be excited about as the annual musical gathering that he created 17 years ago prepares for its most ambitious line-up ever, with 2015 marking the first year that the festival has expanded from one to two days of stellar entertainment on Friday & Saturday, August 7-8th.​

Without doubt one of the hottest tickets and most reasonably priced festivals of the summer season is the upcoming Freeland Blues Festival, which is happening on Saturday, August 1st at Tittabawassee Township Park in Freeland.

Bay City Players Explore Life on the Edge with a Contemporary & Controversial Tony Award Winning Broadway Classic

Bay City Players is taking a walk on the wild side this summer with a highly anticipated production of the controversial Tony Award winning contemporary landmark musical RENT, which is currently in production and will enjoy a limited run beginning Friday, August 14th and continuing through Sunday, August 16th.